The leaders of the people of Krikkit who inhabit their planet for millions of years before learning there is a universe outside their dust-encased world. Once they learn of the outside galaxy when a spaceship crashes on the planet, they rapidly develop space travel and decide they must destroy the rest of the universe. It is learned over the course of the story that the people of Krikkit were manipulated and aided in their rapid technological gain and destruction by the super computer Hactar.